Editing Pynchon?

[John Bailey]

And - uh - now that we all conceivably have access to IV, we can
discuss the variance between the pre-released excerpt and the final
copy of chapter one. The differences seem minor to me, but it's
interesting that someone was still making such minor changes in the
last few months before publication.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Nushra
MohamedKhan<nushramkhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, we are reminded of Melville's Pierre and how H. Parker
> excised the parts that allude to the failure of Moby-Dick and
> Melville's battle with the publishing industry and the reading public.
> Like Pynchon, he made extensive use of both popular culture and poular
> texts, subjected to parody and irony, and the vast canonical tradition
> some of it only recently added such as Hawthorne's HSG. It is not a
> shock that Pynchon would, as Melville did, turn to Holgrave for his
> AGTD photo radical figure.
>
> Pierre, like Bartleby, ends up in the Tombs. He can not sell his
> books. Vibe puts his son in the Tombs for a spat. But then he comes to
> understand that he needn't employ his son; he can hire and train a
> Gatsby.
>